Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-11-03

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order to make Rutherford B. Hayes President
Of the United States Is not wanting in pluck.
(Cheers) Why, then, i ssk, has he not rem
edied this evil II it Is within the constitu-
tional power Of Congress to remedy iti
All, my friends, / fear that my friend 6her-
man was speaking buncombe when he talked
in that way. daughter and applause.) he
knows as well as know; be knows as well as
any one of you knows, that he has no right
whatever to interfere. with tbs election Of
members of the House Of Representatives in
Congress. He knows that he might as well
go to Bismark and say, 81 dismiss you from
the chancellorship of the German Empire or
of the Kingdom of Prussia," as TO 20 and sayi
to member Of the House Of Representa-
tives in Congress, "I dismiss you from your
seat in this body" And why has he no such
power? Because the constitution declares
that each House shall be the sole judge Of the
election returns and qualifications of its own
members. The House of Representa- ives
then, alone has this power, and the Senate has
no power over it Whatsoever, and Mr.. sher4
man is as helpless as a child to remedy this
evil, even if evil existed. And hence, all he
can do is to come and incite the north against
the south by making such statements as that
to which have alluded
Why, one fsvorite argument, if it could be
called argument Of theirs is, that it tskeI
more voters in the north to elect membef
Of Congress than it does in the south, and they
say here in Ohio, for instance, 1t takes 80, ,000
or may be 10000 to elect member of Com
gress; that there are that many votes cast al
the Congressional election in each district j;
whereas in Georgia it doesn't take half as many;
there are not half as many votes cast there
at q Congressional election. lE
Why, dossn't tany man who knows the history
of this country understand that perfectly
we'll? 1t was the policy Of the south from
the very foundation of the government when
they got an able man in Congress, to keep
him there, knowing full well that just the
longer he served, just the greater would be
his influence, and so much more good could
he do to his section, and hence we find men
in the south elected to the Congress of the
United States for 10 and 20 and even rs years.
think old Mr.. Mason served 25 years.
may not be exactly correct in the statement,
but it was something of that kind, and 90
man after man has done. And when it is
understood that the member who holds his
seat is certain of reelection, when the election
comes of, people do not care to turn out to q
Congressional election, and they never do in
the south, and if all the elections in the south
could be looked at and the number of votes
could be counted or tabulated, you would
find that from very early period down to
this date, the number Of men who voted at q
Congressional election in the south were fal
less than the number of men who voted al
such an election in the north. So that there
is nothing strange at all in that, nothing
whatever. But they say this thing happens
because the negroes are tyrannized over, be
cause they are, to use their elegant language
bulldozed, and that keeps the negroes from
voting But that is not ALL They Irav
that makes the blood in a mans veins rur
cold if you believe it. But what do we find
Now, a few things are sufficient to answer
all that. If the negroes are butchered by th,
wholesale, as they pretend; if they are NAL
treated, as they pretend, in the south, tohy
IN Gods name, do the negroes prefer to stay II
the soath l want somebody to answer that
(Applause.) Why is it that the negroes o
Kentucky do not cross the Ohio River anc
come over into Ohio, where they will not b
bulldozed? Not the least bit in the world
On the contrary, if there are not too man,
of them come, and want some Of the Offices
they will be taken into the fold and embrace
of these Republican leaders, until you woult
think the Republican stump-speaker or tn,
Republican office-seeker never in the worlS
had an idea or dream Of that Heaven to which
we all hope to go without having negro ii
help him to get in. daughter and applause.
Why do not the negroes Of Missouri eros
the State line; it is nothing but an ideal thing
the State line can be crossed at single stel
and You are out Of Missouri and into Kansa
or into Iowa. Why do the negroes of Mis-
souri, prefer to remain in Missouri Why d
the negroes of Arkansas stay in Arkansas
when all they have to do is to step over tn
State line, make step Of three feet, an,
they are out of the State and in q free State
Why do the negroes Of Missouri, ,and Alabams
and South Carolina, and North Carolina pre-
fer to stay where they were born, and wher
they have livedf Do you believe, if the
were SO maltreated, that they would do it